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I have a whole bunch of entries with this text in the list of reputation events. They all refer to non existing messages. Has my account been hacked? Any clue? Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question.
Mircea
Eight for me, all around midnight last night, when I was nowhere near a computer.
None of the links go to the thread in question, and I don't recall posting any replies to threads with those titles. Definitely one to keep @chris-maunder tearing his hair out. :-D
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I have a whole bunch of entries with this text in the list of reputation events. They all refer to non existing messages. Has my account been hacked? Any clue? Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question.
Mircea
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I have a whole bunch of entries with this text in the list of reputation events. They all refer to non existing messages. Has my account been hacked? Any clue? Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question.
Mircea
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I have a whole bunch of entries with this text in the list of reputation events. They all refer to non existing messages. Has my account been hacked? Any clue? Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question.
Mircea
I also had two of these. As @0x01AA said, the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer. Now the thread has lost its context, but I'm not sure how this could be "fixed", since deleting a post is sometimes legitimate. But removing the question also makes it look as if the replies belong to the previous thread. I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts. Examples: Re: C++ template function returning "vector" ? - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards[^] Re: Pass a function with parameter - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards[^] @chris-maunder
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I also had two of these. As @0x01AA said, the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer. Now the thread has lost its context, but I'm not sure how this could be "fixed", since deleting a post is sometimes legitimate. But removing the question also makes it look as if the replies belong to the previous thread. I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts. Examples: Re: C++ template function returning "vector" ? - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards[^] Re: Pass a function with parameter - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards[^] @chris-maunder
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Random thoughts:
Greg Utas wrote:
I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts.
Maybe they get deleted automatically if the OP erases his/her profile.
Greg Utas wrote:
the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer.
Maybe deleting a post should just replace its content with some boilerplate message while leaving the answers in place. I can imagine cases where an answer is more valuable than the question itself. Also I don't see why removing the answer would affect the reputation counts: the answer was there (good or bad) so reputation stays the same. Obviously this has to turn into actual code which is not as simple as blabbering here :D
Mircea
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I also had two of these. As @0x01AA said, the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer. Now the thread has lost its context, but I'm not sure how this could be "fixed", since deleting a post is sometimes legitimate. But removing the question also makes it look as if the replies belong to the previous thread. I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts. Examples: Re: C++ template function returning "vector" ? - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards[^] Re: Pass a function with parameter - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards[^] @chris-maunder
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Random thoughts:
Greg Utas wrote:
I would call it abusive if done by OP, who has apparently deleted a lot of posts.
Maybe they get deleted automatically if the OP erases his/her profile.
Greg Utas wrote:
the cause was that a question to which you provided an answer was deleted, probably by OP, which "undid" your answer.
Maybe deleting a post should just replace its content with some boilerplate message while leaving the answers in place. I can imagine cases where an answer is more valuable than the question itself. Also I don't see why removing the answer would affect the reputation counts: the answer was there (good or bad) so reputation stays the same. Obviously this has to turn into actual code which is not as simple as blabbering here :D
Mircea
The questions (or some of them) were posted by Member 14968771[^], whose account was closed at the weekend. See I believe it really is time ...[^]. But I am quite certain that all the questions were still there after the closure, so I think CodeProject may have a new system that does this. Maybe @sean-ewington knows the answer.
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The questions (or some of them) were posted by Member 14968771[^], whose account was closed at the weekend. See I believe it really is time ...[^]. But I am quite certain that all the questions were still there after the closure, so I think CodeProject may have a new system that does this. Maybe @sean-ewington knows the answer.
Sean Ewington does know the answer. I pushed a button that is rarely ever used to remove this user's messages. I probably shouldn't have done that.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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Sean Ewington does know the answer. I pushed a button that is rarely ever used to remove this user's messages. I probably shouldn't have done that.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
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But not the edit button. And the OP has been known to completely erase the content of a message, which seems like an abuse too. It would be interesting to know how often old forum threads get accessed, presumably by others dealing with similar issues. Maybe its often enough that a way to recover or review old versions of a post might be useful. I suspect that it happens infrequently, and the effort to do provide that feature is not worth the payoff.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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But not the edit button. And the OP has been known to completely erase the content of a message, which seems like an abuse too. It would be interesting to know how often old forum threads get accessed, presumably by others dealing with similar issues. Maybe its often enough that a way to recover or review old versions of a post might be useful. I suspect that it happens infrequently, and the effort to do provide that feature is not worth the payoff.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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I was thinking in a more general case. For example I make a post asking a question, and get some replies to it. At this point, short of the Magic Button that Sean used, I can't delete my original post (or at least I don't think I can). However I can edit the content to something like "Sorry, stupid question", thus removing any direct evidence of my foolishness :) I'm not even sure that discussion posts get tagged with v1 v2 etc like QA does. I don't recall if you get a chance to say what was changed, or why. So, given that the moderators have not done anything to the post, but the text has been altered, is there any way to see what changed? Some sort of revision log, so that others could look and see what changed. Maybe that's already there and available? If not, would that be a useful change? Or would the effort required be greater than the 1 time a year it might be used?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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I was thinking in a more general case. For example I make a post asking a question, and get some replies to it. At this point, short of the Magic Button that Sean used, I can't delete my original post (or at least I don't think I can). However I can edit the content to something like "Sorry, stupid question", thus removing any direct evidence of my foolishness :) I'm not even sure that discussion posts get tagged with v1 v2 etc like QA does. I don't recall if you get a chance to say what was changed, or why. So, given that the moderators have not done anything to the post, but the text has been altered, is there any way to see what changed? Some sort of revision log, so that others could look and see what changed. Maybe that's already there and available? If not, would that be a useful change? Or would the effort required be greater than the 1 time a year it might be used?
Keep Calm and Carry On
k5054 wrote:
So, given that the moderators have not done anything to the post, but the text has been altered, is there any way to see what changed?
AFAIK no
k5054 wrote:
Some sort of revision log, so that others could look and see what changed. Maybe that's already there and available?
In the QA yes, but in the message boards I think not. The QA came way later than the boards. I suppose it would be a not so pleasant job to add them
k5054 wrote:
I don't recall if you get a chance to say what was changed, or why.
The user can do a strike and correct, or another user can quote the text and then there is proof in the other message (have been done several times, specially in the Soapbox)
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I was thinking in a more general case. For example I make a post asking a question, and get some replies to it. At this point, short of the Magic Button that Sean used, I can't delete my original post (or at least I don't think I can). However I can edit the content to something like "Sorry, stupid question", thus removing any direct evidence of my foolishness :) I'm not even sure that discussion posts get tagged with v1 v2 etc like QA does. I don't recall if you get a chance to say what was changed, or why. So, given that the moderators have not done anything to the post, but the text has been altered, is there any way to see what changed? Some sort of revision log, so that others could look and see what changed. Maybe that's already there and available? If not, would that be a useful change? Or would the effort required be greater than the 1 time a year it might be used?
Keep Calm and Carry On
If the update is later than a few minutes after the original then a short message appears at the bottom: modified 1 sec ago. However if it is important to preserve the original I will follow it with: [edit] new information here [/edit] And maybe use the strike tags around any original text that is no longer valid.
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Sean Ewington does know the answer. I pushed a button that is rarely ever used to remove this user's messages. I probably shouldn't have done that.
Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject
Was it labelled in black on a black background, and when you press it a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it? :-D
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Was it labelled in black on a black background, and when you press it a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it? :-D
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
No, it was the big red button labeled with "Do NOT touch" :rolleyes: :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
